The crash, between a Dodge pickup truck and a Dodge Caravan minivan, happened at about 7:14 p.m. in the interstate’s eastbound lanes near Tower Road.

Trooper Josh Lewis, of the Colorado State Patrol, said a 2003 Dodge Caravan driven by Gerald Arnett, 86, of Wheat Ridge, was traveling west in an eastbound lane when it struck a 2001 Dodge pickup truck driven by Kyle Parker, 24, of Strasburg, who was in the correct lane.

The Caravan driver and his passenger, Betty Arnett, 96, also of Wheat Ridge, died.

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